News and press releases

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo and the OSCE Mission to Serbia, for the second consecutive year, will organize the Dialogue Academy for Young Women as part of the Follow Us initiative. The initiative gathers prominent women from politics, academia, media and civil society from Belgrade and Prishtinë/Priština and supports the process of dialogue, reconciliation and confidence-building between the two societies...

Enhancing the capacity of civil society organizations to prevent and respond to hate crimes was the focus of a workshop organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Bucharest on 2-3 June 2016.

Recognizing, investigating and prosecuting hate crime against people with disabilities was the focus of a workshop for police officers and prosecutors from Croatia, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in co-operation with the European Network for Independent Living (ENIL) and the Office of the Croatian Ombudsman for Persons with Disabilities, held in Zagreb on 2-3 June 2016.

CHOLPON-ATA, Kyrgyzstan, 3 June 2016 – Measures to enhance tolerance among religious communities in Kyrgyzstan is in focus of an OSCE-supported meeting which concludes tomorrow in Cholpon-ata town in Issyk–Kul region, having brought together some 120 representatives of local self-government bodies, political parties, education and health sectors, academia, civil society, as well as elderly people and youth...

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) announced on 1 June 2016 the funding of five civil society projects in Ukraine aimed at increasing awareness of hate crime in society.

ASTANA, 31 May 2016 – Expressing a strong belief in the role of inter-parliamentary diplomacy and dialogue, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Special Representative for Central and Eastern Asia, Austrian parliamentarian Christine Muttonen, today called for greater unity and co-operation across the OSCE area in countering violent extremism...

A civil society expert workshop and discussions amongst OSCE delegations on the topic of Dialogue in Search of Social Cohesion, organized by the 2016 Austrian Chairmanship of the OSCE Mediterranean Contact Group and hosted by Spain, concluded on 24 May 2016 in Madrid...